Councils have reacted with anger after the Government refused to allow them to move £300m of business rates relief between years.
In a letter to council leaders, seen by The MJ, local government minister Marcus Jones said there were ‘no plans to allow end-of-year flexibility with regard to this year’s allocations’.
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